Codeigniter not connecting to my SMTP server - php

Question

For some reason CodeIgniter is not connecting to my SMTP server, anyone have any problems surrounding this?
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'smtp.netregistry.com.au';
$config['smtp_port'] = '465';
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.netregistry.com.au:465 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known)
Filename: libraries/Email.php
Line Number: 1689
Should I be using the SSL or non-SSL port? (I've tried both; no dice)
Is there a way of explicitly telling CI to use SSL or not?
Am I doing anything blaringly wrong here?
Thanks

Answer 1

The smtp server was actually incorrect.

Answer 2

From the error, it said "getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known".
And the function php_network_getaddresses shoots the error.
That might means your SMTP server is behind your company gateway, or is a private server.
So, that results in fsockopen() doesn't seem to find your SMTP server.
Try to run your code again in your company, that should work then.

Answer 3

You could try putting ssl: in the host address:
$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.netregistry.com.au';
$config['smtp_port'] = '465';
Quite often smtp hosts have security in place that prevents this kind of use. Have you tried using a gmail account? That does work for me, here is how I use it:
function send_email($attributes) {
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com';
$config['smtp_port'] = '465';
$config['smtp_user'] = 'xxx#gmail.com';
$config['smtp_from_name'] = 'FROM NAME';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'XXX';
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->from($config['smtp_user'], $config['smtp_from_name']);
$this->email->to($attributes['to']);
$this->email->cc($attributes['cc']);
$this->email->bcc($attributes['cc']);
$this->email->subject($attributes['subject']);
$this->email->message($attributes['message']);
if($this->email->send()) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

Answer 4

there will be system/libraries/Email.php file.
default port will be 25 .please also add smtp_host as localhost there like this..
var $smtp_host = "localhost";
var $smtp_port = "25";